Joshua 15

1 Ref The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.

2 Ref Their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward;

3 Ref and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh-barnea, and passed along by Hezron, and went up to Addar, and turned about to Karka;

4 Ref and it passed along to Azmon, and went out at the brook of Egypt; and the goings out of the border were at the sea: this shall be your south border.

5 Ref The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan;

6 Ref and the border went up to Beth Hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;

7 Ref and the border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river; and the border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, and the goings out of it were at En Rogel;

8 Ref and the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite southward (the same is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the uttermost part of the valley of Rephaim northward;

9 Ref and the border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah (the same is Kiriath Jearim);

10 Ref and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;

11 Ref and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward; and the border extended to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.

12 Ref The west border was to the great sea, and the border [of it]. This is the border of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

13 Ref To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).

14 Ref Caleb drove out there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

15 Ref He went up there against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.

16 Ref Caleb said, He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.

17 Ref Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.

18 Ref It happened, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her donkey; and Caleb said, What would you?

19 Ref She said, Give me a blessing; for that you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. He gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

20 Ref This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.

21 Ref The uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,

22 and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,

23 Ref and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,

24 Ref Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

25 Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth, Hezron (the same is Hazor),

26 Ref Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,

27 Ref and Hazar Gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth Pelet,

28 Ref and Hazar Shual, and Beersheba, and Biziothiah,

29 Ref Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem,

30 Ref and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,

31 Ref and Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,

32 Ref and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.

33 Ref In the lowland, Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah,

34 Ref and Zanoah, and En Gannim, Tappuah, and Enam,

35 Ref Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,

36 Ref and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.

37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad,

38 Ref and Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,

39 Ref Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,

40 and Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Chitlish,

41 Ref and Gederoth, Beth Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.

42 Ref Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,

43 and Iphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,

44 Ref and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.

45 Ref Ekron, with its towns and its villages;

46 Ref from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.

47 Ref Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border [of it].

48 Ref In the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,

49 Ref and Dannah, and Kiriath Sannah (the same is Debir),

50 and Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,

51 Ref and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

52 Ref Arab, and Dumah, and Eshan,

53 and Janim, and Beth Tappuah, and Aphekah,

54 Ref and Humtah, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.

55 Ref Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah,

56 and Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,

57 Ref Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.

58 Ref Halhul, Beth Zur, and Gedor,

59 and Maarath, and Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.

60 Ref Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

61 Ref In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, and Secacah,

62 Ref and Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their villages.

63 Ref As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn't drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

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